In a remarkable discovery off the rugged coastline of California, researchers have encountered a living coelacanth, a ...

Indeed, researchers are coming to realize that the term “living fossil” is a misnomer. One by one, the classic examples—horseshoe crabs, coelacanths, cycads, and more—have turned out to be very ...

Yet, there are many examples of macroevolutionary phenomena ... about what Earth's environment was like when these fossils were living can be used to infer what might have precipitated different ...

When fossil remains were found that were unlike anything living at the time, some scientists argued that they were unusual examples of living creatures, or that animals known only from fossils ...